>From: lvn@fox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Larry Novak)
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>Call: C6AHE
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>Lowlights:
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> ... I had the computer programmed to send my call after every 3 QSO's ...
>
> 3. Second pet peeve: dupes.
Hey, if you are only sending your call every three QSOs in a contest, then you
deserve all the dupes you get. Someone may have just tuned on to you just as
you sent your call, so they missed it. Are they supposed to sit around while
you polish off three Qs before sending your call? Heck no. They are going to
call you.
By the time they call you and find out what your call is, it is too late for
them to realise you were a dupe. Rather than waste more time trying to get
through the pileup to tell you it was a dupe.
If you want fewer dupes, trying signing after every QSO. If you refuse to give
your call that frequently, then you'll have to live with all the dupes.
(Frankly, I've never understood the penchant for signing infrequently in a
contest. Signing less often supposedly "saves" time, but it ends up wasting
everyone's time in call requests, dupes and excessively large pileups due to
blind calling.
Perhaps in our champaign to demand full calls, we should also insist on at
least
1 signing per QSO.)
Bill, AA4LR
bcoleman@hayes.com
>From Peter G. Smith" <n4zr@netcom.com Wed Feb 22 13:55:52 1995
From: Peter G. Smith" <n4zr@netcom.com (Peter G. Smith)
Subject: To Sprint or.... More
Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9502220509.A5624-0100000@netcom>
In response to Fred K3ZO and for what it's worth, I have been taken
somewhat aback by some of what passes for impassioned discourse on the
Internet. The flame-wars that erupt bear little resemblance to
impassioned face-to-face arguments, because even the passionate have
standards about arguing methods. The immediate retreat to ad hominem
attacks and name-calling on the Internet would not be acceptable
face-to-face either. Maybe it's the "distance" of it all - like throwing
the bird at someone on the interstate from the protection of your closed
automobile.
Fortunately, this reflector (and the other ham radio reflectors) seem
remarkably civil, but there certainly has been no absence of passion in
some of the arguments here over the past 18 months. I hope they stay about
the way they are.
73, Pete
N4ZR@netcom.com
"Better, faster,cheaper -- choose any two"
"No no no -- it's WEST Virginia"
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